Chapter Summaries

Unas and his allies weakened the Overlord Spider so Rosebayne could try to tame it, but she failed repeatedly. After Bessarius explained that Unas could support her will, the group prepared for another attempt.

• Unas, Nightmoon, and Haikesi attacked the injured Overlord Spider, while the Puppet Spider helped hold it down.
• Unas battered the Overlord Spider with his silver hammers until it lost consciousness, and Rosebayne began her taming spell.
• Rosebayne's first attempt failed, and the Overlord Spider fled deeper into the cave before Unas chased it into a dead-end cavern.
• Unas and the Puppet Spider subdued the weakened Overlord Spider again, but Rosebayne failed five more times as her mental strength dwindled.
• Unas called on Bessarius for advice, and the demon told him that his will could support Rosebayne's during her next attempt.

Unas helped Rosebayne subdue the Overlord Spider by supporting her mentally, while Haikesi’s ritual tipped the struggle in her favor. Afterward, the group rested in the cave, where Unas examined a mysterious stone pillar and asked Nightmoon her age.

• Unas connected his mind to Rosebayne’s and strengthened her spirit as she tried to subdue the Overlord Spider.
• The Overlord Spider resisted fiercely, but Rosebayne held her ground with Unas’s support.
• Haikesi scattered ritual powder and danced, giving Rosebayne enough support to break the stalemate and subdue the Overlord Spider.
• Unas celebrated Rosebayne’s success and thanked Haikesi for helping.
• The exhausted group stopped to rest, and Unas asked Nightmoon about a stone pillar marked with patterns resembling writing.
• Nightmoon angrily said she did not remember her age after Unas asked how old she was.

Unas and his companions tried to escape the Six-Headed Lizard’s lair through a swarm of Three-Headed Lizards, but the beast ambushed them as they neared the forest. With Rosebayne falling behind, Unas turned back to hold off the pursuers and ended the chapter clinging to the wounded Six-Headed Lizard.

• Unas gathered black soil while the beautiful spider warned that many Three-Headed Lizards were approaching the cave.
• Unas, Nightmoon, Rosebayne, and Haikesi rode the weakened Overlord Spiders out of the cave and found the entrance surrounded by lizards.
• Nightmoon warned that the Six-Headed Lizard was hiding in the bog or pool, so the group forced a route east through the encirclement.
• The Six-Headed Lizard emerged from the bog and attacked as the lizards closed in, but Unas and Nightmoon fought their way out toward the forest.
• When Rosebayne slowed and the Six-Headed Lizard gained on them, Unas sent Haikesi ahead and turned back to cover the retreat.
• Unas charged the Six-Headed Lizard on the Puppet Spider, drove his spear into one of its necks, and clung to the beast as it thrashed.

Unas fought to escape the Six-Headed Lizard, whose water attacks injured him and whose jaws nearly crushed him. Nightmoon teleported them to safety, leaving Unas to realize she had transported them about a thousand meters in an instant.

• Unas fled the Six-Headed Lizard on his Skeletal Warhorse, but the beast unleashed water pillars that battered him and broke the horse's ribs.
• The Six-Headed Lizard caught Unas and swallowed him, forcing him to activate Invincible and fire his double-barreled firearm down its throat to escape.
• As Unas fled with Invincible nearly spent, Nightmoon appeared and called him toward her.
• Nightmoon embraced Unas, silently cast a spell, and teleported them away while the Six-Headed Lizard destroyed the abandoned Bone Horse and searched the woods.
• Unas and Nightmoon fell into a forest about a thousand meters away, and Unas realized Nightmoon had performed a remarkable teleportation.

After Nightmoon saved Unas from the Six-Headed Lizard, the group recovered in the forest and planned their next steps. Unas and Haikesi went to gather soil while Nightmoon and Rosebayne set out to scout the Purple-robed Person’s dungeon, leaving Unas to mourn the loss of his Skeletal Warhorse.

• Nightmoon explained that rescuing Unas had damaged her Blink Ring, and Unas thanked her for saving his life.
• Unas and Nightmoon reunited with the Troll and the exhausted Rosebayne, then rested overnight while the Troll kept watch.
• The next morning, Nightmoon proposed investigating the Purple-robed Person’s dungeon, while Unas argued that they were not ready to confront him.
• Unas arranged for Haikesi and him to gather soil near the swamp while Nightmoon and Rosebayne scouted the dungeon, with both groups due back before dark.
• Unas and Haikesi returned to the battlefield and found the Skeletal Warhorse shattered, prompting Unas to resolve to settle the score with the Six-Headed Lizard once he was stronger.

Unas returned from the Swamp with 357 bags of Black Soil after finding no clear route to the dungeon, and he brought Rosebayne and the Overlord Spider to a cave near the Red Stone Stele. Back at the outpost, he went to report the harvest to Master Oakleaf while a mage from the Monastery waited to see him.

• Unas and the Troll filled their spatial bag with Swamp Black Soil, and Unas learned Blessing of Wisdom to help Rosebayne recover mental power.
• Unas reunited with Nightmoon and the Troll, then led the party out of the Swamp despite Nightmoon's failure to locate the dungeon.
• Unas left Rosebayne and the Overlord Spider in a cave near the Red Stone Stele, refused the Troll's request to stay, and returned with the others to the outpost.
• A messenger told Unas that Doan-Norwid, a student of Arcanist Doan, had repeatedly asked to see him, but Unas postponed the meeting to visit Master Oakleaf.
• Unas found Master Oakleaf teaching mushroom cultivation in cave four and reported that the party had brought back 357 bags of Swamp Black Soil.

Unas returned to the outpost, rejected the Mage Academy representative’s demand for a share of the crystal mine, and ordered preparations for an offensive against the spiders. To strengthen his forces, he used Fel to enslave the nonhuman prisoners, then armed and trained them for battle, despite the damage to his own arm.

• Unas stored the Black Soil with Oakleaf, then told Nightmoon about Oakleaf’s doubts concerning the Purple-robed Person and heard that the Mage Academy wanted a share of the crystal mine.
• Unas dismissed the Mage Academy’s representative, citing Tyrosus’s letter granting him authority over the mine negotiations.
• Unas assured Perella and Huoye that the crystals would first serve Blood Elves suffering from Mana Addiction, then ordered an offensive in three days and requested a corps of Elf mages.
• Unas ordered the outpost to prepare for war and decided to use the prisoners as part of his attacking force.
• Unas sacrificed a Gnoll and used Fel to enslave the Orc Warriors and the other nonhuman prisoners, suffering damage to his left arm in the process.
• Unas publicly claimed he had negotiated with the prisoners, armed and trained them, and watched the outpost accept his control of them as war preparations continued.

Unas weighed a risky plan to move the Red Stone Stele behind spider lines, then focused on negotiating with Dean Du'an and recruited Helen Ganis as the army’s Arcane advisor. Helen agreed to stay after seeing the Blood Elves’ suffering, while Whitemane stormed away but appeared unlikely to leave.

• Unas considered sending prisoner companies with the Red Stone Stele five kilometers behind enemy lines to draw the spiders’ attention while the main force advanced.
• Whitemane introduced Helen Ganis, an intermediate fire mage, who apologized for Doan-Norwid and praised Unas for rescuing women and children from the demon’s dungeon.
• Unas invited Helen to stay as his Arcane advisor, and she accepted despite Whitemane’s warnings and their argument with Unas.
• Helen told Unas that Dean Du'an wanted three tenths of the elemental crystals in exchange for Mage Academy supplies, and Unas planned to negotiate for better terms and military support.
• Unas introduced Helen to Arenas Fireleaf, whose lesson on Blood Elves suffering from Mana Addiction made Helen want to return to the Monastery; Unas persuaded her to stay and promised to handle the matter.

Unas showed Helen around the stronghold and recruited her to join the Blood Elf mage corps while reporting on their movements. After drilling his troops, he rode to welcome Erigor, Du'an, Angela, and Helen’s father, Earl Ganis, who had arrived at the stronghold.

• Whitemane decided to stay, and Unas told her to stop making remarks that could undermine his command.
• Unas toured the stronghold with Helen, who met Beryl and resolved to help the refugees by fighting alongside him.
• Unas assigned Helen to train with Huoye and send him weekly reports on the Blood Elves’ activities.
• Unas drilled his four hundred troops, then learned that Erigor, Du'an, Angela, and Earl Ganis had arrived to see him.
• Unas greeted the visitors at the gate, introduced himself to Earl Ganis, and sent a guard to escort the group into the stronghold.

Unas negotiated with Erigor, Du'an, Angela, and Earl Ganis for help in a battle to expand the Argent Dawn's territory and secure crystal mining. Helen chose to stay with Unas, and Angela began considering how to support his campaign.

• Erigor told Unas that the regiment could not join his battle but that members of the Brotherhood could support him, and Unas asked him to help persuade Angela to join.
• Unas told Erigor he planned to extend Argent Dawn territory in the canyon by five kilometers and asked Angela to help fight the spiders.
• Earl Ganis demanded that Helen return home, but Helen declared she would stay with Unas and used Invisibility and Blink to evade her father.
• Du'an agreed that the Blood Elves could receive priority for crystals used to treat Mana Addiction, while Unas insisted that defeating the spiders was necessary to protect mining.
• Angela asked Unas how she could help in the battle, and he said she and the others could follow the army and kill spiders while withdrawing if they felt threatened.

Unas secured the mages’ help by revealing his control over the Overlord Spiders and negotiating terms for lending Huoye and sharing the crystal mine’s output. Two days later, he led an assembled force toward the spiders using an aggressive plan to destroy them before they could gather.

• Unas told Du'an, Erigor, and Angela that he controlled two Overlord Spiders and claimed his captives obeyed him because they feared the spiritual pressure he inherited from Bessarius.
• Du'an agreed to help in exchange for a temporary loan of Huoye and a share of the crystal mine’s output, and Unas settled on one month and ten percent.
• Two days later, Unas assembled the battle force, beheaded a Troll and two Gnolls who started fighting, and ordered the march.
• Unas placed Helen with the rear reserve, then persuaded her that the assignment was important.
• After the Blood Elf rangers reported the spiders’ positions, Unas chose to advance quickly and have the rear force eliminate spiders at fixed points before the forces joined beyond the new boundary marker.

Unas moved his force beyond the planned position and fortified a narrow pass, using Angela’s ice wall and the Overlord Spiders to prepare for an attack. When the giant spiders arrived, the defenders held their ground, and Unas rushed to stop a brown spider from breaking through the Gnolls’ line.

• Unas led the force past its primary position to a narrow pass, where the engineers raised the Red Stone Stele and cleared the trees.
• Angela raised a spiked ice wall across the pass and coated the ground beyond it with ice, while Unas arranged the troops’ defenses.
• Unas ordered the troops to volley spears, javelins, and stones at the approaching spiders, which retaliated with venom and poisonous spines.
• Unas and Kruz Fireblade killed a Blade Spider after it broke through to the front line, while other defenders held except for the faltering Gnolls.
• Unas rushed toward the Gnolls to confront a brown, barbed spider that was slaughtering them.

Unas led the captives through a spider assault, killed nine giant spiders, and rallied his forces while the rear army advanced. The spiders attacked again as Qiaosen’s cavalry arrived to reinforce the front.

• Unas and Cruz fought together to kill a spined spider, and Unas went on to kill nine giant spiders and reach level 29.
• Unas learned Blessing of Sanctuary, organized the captives after the spiders retreated, and reassured the soldiers by explaining that an Overlord Spider was holding the enemy back.
• Angela reported that Dean Du'an’s rear army had advanced three kilometers, and Unas ordered Qiaosen to push forward at full speed.
• Qiaosen led the rear army five kilometers beyond its original destination, where Du'an relayed that the spiders had attacked Unas’s force again.
• Qiaosen charged toward the battle and hurled his spear into a giant spider as his cavalry arrived.

Unas and his allies trapped the giant spiders in an ice cage and bombarded them with magic, leaving a small group of survivors to face Qiaosen’s troops. During the final fight, Unas reached level 30, chose the Reckoning talent, and used it to kill an Ironclad Spider with a single javelin throw.

• Qiaosen’s cavalry struck the spiders from behind, killing three and paralyzing five before retreating to protect the mages.
• Angela joined the ice team to trap the spider swarm in a cage of pillars, and the remaining mages and Unas’s soldiers attacked the trapped spiders.
• A dozen surviving spiders broke through an ice pillar and charged Qiaosen, so Unas led his Orc squad through the cage to help.
• Unas reached level 30 and chose Reckoning, a talent that stored damage he received and returned it in a counterattack.
• Unas hurled a javelin at an Ironclad Spider and released the stored power, piercing it through and confirming the strength of his new talent.

Unas led his troops to victory over the spiders at the ice wall, then prepared to stop a Flame Spider from melting through their defenses. He and Korfax flew over the wall to attack it, leaving Unas crashing into the swarm.

• Unas unleashed Reckoning to kill the largest spider, and the Orc warriors protected him while he recovered.
• Unas rallied his soldiers and led Qiaosen's troops to the other end of the ice wall, where Rosebayne and Haikesi's spiders had thrown the swarm into disarray.
• Two Overlord Spiders led several spiders away, but a scarlet Flame Spider rallied the remaining swarm and attacked the ice wall with its fiery venom.
• Unas learned Wings of Vengeance and agreed to join Korfax in attacking the Flame Spider.
• Two Ogres hurled Unas and Korfax over the wall, sending Unas crashing into the spider swarm.

Unas tried to fly during the battle against the giant spiders, then helped Korfax escape the Flame Spider’s self-destruction and led the defense of the breach in the ice wall. With the Overlord Spider squad striking the swarm from behind, the enemy broke, and Unas’s forces won the battle.

• Unas gained wings of light but struggled to control his flight, while Korfax attacked the Flame Spider from the air.
• Korfax ordered a retreat after failing to kill the Flame Spider, and Unas flew to catch him as the spider began to self-destruct.
• Unas warned his troops to raise their shields as the Flame Spider’s explosion sent ice shards toward them and blasted a gap in the ice wall.
• Unas led Warriors to block the breach while Nightmoon and Perella directed the Elves’ attack from the ice wall.
• Rosebayne and Haikesi brought the Overlord Spider squad against the swarm’s rear, breaking its resolve and prompting Unas to send Qiaosen and Liante’s cavalry in pursuit.

After the army defeated a swarm of giant spiders, Unas secured the canyon entrance, organized the recovery effort, and reviewed the casualties. Whitemane then brought him to a dying soldier so he could use Resurrection, while Unas insisted Namelia confirm the man could not be saved and distracted Whitemane from her questions about her identity.

• Haikesi returned with the cavalry, and Unas sent him and Rose back into the canyon to scout while carrying the Undead Mage's skull for contact.
• Unas ordered the army to seal the breach, clear the battlefield, and begin building defenses and processing the spider corpses.
• Unas reviewed the casualties and learned that the Orcs and Gnolls had suffered the heaviest losses, many after the ice wall was breached.
• Whitemane summoned Unas to a field hospital, where she said a soldier with a severe heart wound could only be saved with Resurrection.
• Unas greeted Natasha, using the name Namelia, and said he would ask her to confirm the soldier could not be saved before attempting Resurrection.
• Whitemane questioned Unas about Namelia, and he distracted her with a story about the Holy Light and the meaning of Resurrection.

Unas successfully resurrected the dying soldier Mo'er, whose suspicions about Whitemane’s attack led him to protect Unas. The chapter ended with Mo'er knocking Whitemane unconscious before she could investigate Unas’s left hand.

• Whitemane accused Unas of sacrificing his people, but the dying Mo'er defended Unas and revealed that he had volunteered to fight.
• Mo'er asked Unas to care for his pregnant wife, and Unas promised before casting Resurrection after Mo'er’s heart stopped.
• Unas successfully resurrected Mo'er, while Whitemane sensed a strange presence in Unas’s left hand and demanded to examine it.
• Unas shoved Whitemane away, but she bound and stunned him, saying she needed to determine whether he was a demon.
• Mo'er woke fully healed, saw Whitemane restraining Unas, and threatened her with a sword before knocking her unconscious with its hilt.

Unas recovered after Natasha dispelled Whitemane’s Power Word, then ordered Natasha to seal Whitemane’s memory of his use of Fel despite the risk of side effects. After recruiting Mohr and returning to the front, Unas oversaw the army’s defenses and wondered whether the spider swarm would return.

• Mohr helped Unas up and fetched Natasha, who dispelled Whitemane’s binding spell.
• Unas explained to Natasha that Whitemane had discovered his use of Fel, and she agreed to try sealing the memory despite the danger to Whitemane’s mind.
• Unas told Mohr to conceal what had happened, claimed Whitemane had collapsed from exhaustion, and offered him a place in his personal guard.
• Natasha finished working on Whitemane, and Unas left her to watch over her while Mohr returned to the base to recover.
• Unas returned to the front line, where the army built a foundation against the ice wall and camped for the night as he wondered if the spider swarm would attack again.

Unas consolidated the new frontier after the spider conflict, while Rosebayne slowly expanded her force and the army resumed its work. As Perella pressed him to begin mining the crystal, two Goblins arrived asking to see Unas, leaving their purpose unknown.

• Rosebayne recruited three more giant spiders, while Unas arranged for her to study a safe method of mental cultivation.
• The earthen boundary wall neared completion, Whitemane awoke with no memory of her collapse, and the Monastery’s helpers departed after the danger passed.
• Unas sent most troops back to the stronghold and kept the High Elf rangers monitoring the spiders as the army continued its work.
• Perella urged Unas to assign workers to the crystal mine, but he explained that the mushroom cave’s collapse had delayed the Dwarves’ excavation.
• Two Goblins arrived demanding to see Unas, interrupting his conversation with Perella.